The Defense Department announced Perspecta/Perspecta Labs has been awarded a $14.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the research and development effort for Autonomous Defensive Cyber Operation, tactical networks and communications.

Perspecta/Perspecta Labs was the only bidder on the contract, which has an estimated completion date of March 2025.

Army funds for Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluationwere obligated at the time of the award, through the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.